ELM 2019/2

Selected translations


ELM 2/2019
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ChineseTitle “Tantsisklevail lehtedel ta keerleb”Title * 喚發舞動之樹葉 : 五十四首描繪香港風景的俳 (Estonian: Chinese)Author MathuraGenre P...

Eeva Park
My Majestic Giraffes

By Piret Viires
ELM 2/2019
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From the “Writers with Writers” seriesTallinn; Hea Lugu, 2018. 158 pp. ISBN   9789949634538 In 2018, the Hea Lugu publishing house launc...

Urmas Vadi
The Ballet Master

By Aro Velmet
ELM 2/2019
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Loomingu Raamatukogu 2019, nr 6-9EAN 3220000004467 Urmas Vadi’s The Ballet Master is an absurdist satire of nationalist politics written...

Kertu Sillaste
I Am an Artist

By Mari Niitra
ELM 2//2019
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Koolibri 2018, 32 pp. ISBN  9789985041383 Whether or not something is art can be debated ad infinitum. Oftentimes, you hear people loudl...

Martin Algus
Something Real

By Aare Pilv
ELM 2/2019
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Varrak 2018, 179 ppISBN  9789985344507 Martin Algus’s novel Something Real, which received the Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s 2019 Awar...

Hasso Krull
Europe

By Taavi Hallimäe
ELM 2/2019
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Kaksikhammas 2018, 92 pp. ISBN  9789949999125 Hasso Krull’s poetry collection Euroopa (Europe) becomes steadily denser, more bo...

Piret Raud
All My Relatives

By Krista Kumberg
ELM 2/2019
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Illustrated by the authorTänapäev 2017, 116pp.ISBN    9789949852314 The narrator of Raud’s All My Relatives, a boy named Adam, is far fr...

Maarja Pärtna
Vivarium

By Maarja Helena Meriste
ELM 2/2019
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Elusamus 2019, 72 pp.ISBN    9789949735013 The role of nature in poetry has, foremost, traditionally been ornamental, atmospheric, or me...

Tõnu Õnnepalu
Acre

Translated by Adam Cullen
ELM 2/2019
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I realized I was very far from home on the very first morning there, in a suburb of Toronto, when I woke up (which had happened several tim...

Poetry by
Andres Allan

Translated by Adam Cullen
ELM 2/2019
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Peeling seconds my coat and boots are left dancing hollowly when drunks sway on the highways and the woods have dried up ...

Viivi Luik and
Tõnu Õnnepalu
5+5


ELM 2/2019
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V: Have you felt great reverence at least once in your life? T: I have no idea what great reverence is. Whenever anyone talks about the ...

Juhan Liiv:
A search for the pure word

By Mathura
ELM 2/2019
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The year 2019 looms large in Estonia’s cultural calendar, marking the 150th anniversary of the Estonian Song and Dance Celebration. Its imp...